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Your Father Loves You

The Good News of the Gospel of Jesus Christ is that God the Father loves His children so much that He’s held nothing back in giving them all they need to come unto Him through the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, the substitute for our sin on His cross. He has given us everything that pertains to life and godliness in the KNOWLEDGE of Him!

But man tries to either limit or control God. Some have used God as a means of profit or manipulation of others and this is NOT God’s Way! Jesus laid down His life willingly and we are to freely give as freely as we have received of Him.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life

2 Corinthians 11:1-6

Will you put up with a little foolish aside from me? Please, just for a moment. The thing that has me so upset is that I care about you so much—this is the passion of God burning inside me! I promised your hand in marriage to Christ, presented you as a pure virgin to her husband. And now I’m afraid that exactly as the Snake seduced Eve with his smooth patter, you are being lured away from the simple purity of your love for Christ.

It seems that if someone shows up preaching quite another Jesus than we preached—different spirit, different message—you put up with him quite nicely. But if you put up with these big-shot “apostles,” why can’t you put up with simple me? I’m as good as they are. It’s true that I don’t have their voice, haven’t mastered that smooth eloquence that impresses you so much. But when I do open my mouth, I at least know what I’m talking about. We haven’t kept anything back. We let you in on everything.

In both Matthew 19 and Mark 10 Jesus welcoming the children come in the context of the hard-hearted ones who divorce themselves from the very relationships that God has entrusted them with –the very ones who they are to be patterns of God’s grace. Sandwiched between Jesus teaching that God designed a marriage to be an earthly example of the type of relationship God wants with mankind, and the questioning Rich Young Ruler, comes the children unto Him.

And Jesus called a little child unto him, and set him in the midst of them, And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven.

In Luke 18, it is in the context of the teaching on the Tax Man and the Pharisee and again, the yearning heart of the Rich Official–here is where Jesus warns against the danger that comes from becoming complacently pleased with one’s self over moral performance and in the process, looking down your nose at the common people. If you walk around with your nose in the air, you’re manifesting the spirit of the devil which is pride (the original sin which resulted in his downfall and being displaced from God’s presence), and likewise– you’re going to end up flat on your face.

1 Timothy 6:6-7, “But godliness with contentment is great gain. For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out.”

Jesus then says that to those who are content to be simply yourself, you will become more than yourself and from that context, He illustrates with the children:

John 3:3, “Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”

1 Peter 1:23-25, “Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which lives and abides for ever. For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower thereof falls away: But the word of the Lord endures for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.”

God so loved the world that He gave — He gave His Only Son that whosoever believes on Him should not perish but have Everlasting Life
which begins the very moment that we are “born again” by the Incorruptible Seed which is God’s Holy Word (Jesus) by His Holy Spirit given to us to lead and guide us into all Truth and show us Jesus.

Romans 8:14-19, “For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. The Spirit itself bears witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together. For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. For the earnest expectation of the creature waits for the manifestation of the sons of God.”

So Jesus explained himself at length. "I'm telling you this straight. The Son can't independently do a thing, only what he sees the Father doing. What the Father does, the Son does. The Father loves the Son and includes him in everything he is doing.

1 John 3:1-3, “Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knows us not, because it knew him not. Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. And every man that hath this hope in him purifies himself, even as he is pure.”